She Listens to a Latin Beat

April 26, 2013 10:50 p.m. ET

Estrellita B. Brodsky spent her childhood in Manhattan, with frequent trips to Venezuela with her family. "Growing up in New York, there was a lack of awareness of what was going on in Latin America," she said. She's made it her mission to bring greater recognition to Latin American artists, championing them through her writings and donations and endowing a curatorial position at New York's Museum of Modern Art. Ms. Brodsky has spent 25 years on her own collection of close to 500 works. (Her husband, real-estate...